Jean René - JR

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Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan

Galeria Nara Roesler

Galerie Perrotin

Profesionales con obra

Carlos Algara

Descripción del Artista

JR expone libremente en las calles del mundo, captando la atención de personas que no son visitantes típicos de museos. Después de encontrar una cámara en el metro de París en 2001, viajó a Europa para encontrarse con quienes se expresaban en paredes y fachadas, y pegó sus retratos en las calles, los subterráneos y los tejados de París. En 2006, creó Retrato de una generación, retratos de "matones" suburbanos que publicó, en grandes formatos, en los distritos burgueses de París. En 2007, con Marco, hizo Face 2 Face, la mayor exposición ilegal de la historia. JR publicó enormes retratos de israelíes y palestinos cara a cara en ocho ciudades palestinas e israelíes. En 2008, se embarcó en un largo viaje internacional para Women Are Heroes, en el que subraya la dignidad de las mujeres que a menudo son el blanco de los conflictos. Ese año también creó The Wrinkles of the City, un proyecto que lo llevó a Cartagena (España), Shanghai, Los Angeles, La Habana, Berlín y Estambul, en el que enfatiza la transformación de barrios y ciudades a través de las arrugas de sus ancianos. ------------------------------------------------------------ JR began his career as a teenage graffiti artist. After finding a camera in the Paris Metro in 2001, he traveled Europe to meet individuals who express themselves on walls and facades, and pasted their portraits in the streets, undergrounds, and rooftops of Paris. The artist creates “Pervasive Art” that spreads uninvited—on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on walls in the Middle East, on broken bridges in Africa or the favelas of Brazil. JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world, where there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators, making art that catches the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. In this way, people who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. JR has the largest art gallery in the world. Thanks to his photographic collage technique, he exhibits his work free of charge on the walls of the whole world – attracting the attention of those who do not usually go to museums. Originator of the 28 Millimeters Project which he started in and around Clichy-Montfermeil in 2004, continued in the Middle East with Face 2 Face (2007), in Brazil and Kenya for Women Are Heroes (2008-2011), the documentary for which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 (Critics' Week). JR has created "Infiltrating art". During his collage activities, the local communities take part in the act of artistic creation, with no stage separating actors from spectators. The anonymity of JR and the absence of any explanation accompanying his huge portraits leave him with a free space in which issues and actors, performers and passers-by meet, forming the essence of his work. In 2011 he received the Ted Prize, giving him the opportunity to make a vow to change the world. He created Inside Out, an international participatory art project that allows people from around the world to receive a print of their portrait and then billboard it as support for an idea, a project, an action and share that experience. In 2014, working with the New York City Ballet, he used the language of dance to tell his version of the riots in the Clichy-Montfermeil district. He created The Groves, a ballet and short film, the music for which was composed by Woodkid, Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams, and which was presented at the Tribeca Film Festival. At the same time, JR worked in the abandoned hospital of Ellis Island, an important place in the history of immigration – and made the short film ELLIS, with Robert De Niro. In 2016, JR was invited by the Louvre, whose pyramid he made disappear the with the help of an astonishing anamorphosis. The same year, during the Olympic Games in Rio, he created gigantic new sculptural installations throughout the city, to underline the beauty of the sporting gesture. In 2017, he co-directed with Agnès Varda "Faces, Place"s, screened the same year in the official selection out of competition for the Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Golden Eye (for best documentary) and was nominated for a Caesar and an Oscar in the same category in 2018. He has received other awards around the world. JR is represented by the Perrotin Gallery, and has held several exhibitions in Paris, Hong Kong, Miami and New York. In 2013, the first retrospectives of JR's work took place in Tokyo (at the Watari-Um Museum) and the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, followed by exhibitions at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden Baden in 2014, and at the HOCA Foundation in Hong Kong in 2015. He will be exhibiting this year at the European House of Photography, then at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Brooklyn Museum in 2019.

Exposiciones en las que ha participado como artista

O papel da mão

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Patamar

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GIANTS, peeking at the city, Havana, Cuba, 2019

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5 exposiciones individuales

6 exposiciones